Residents will be ‘relieved’ to hear the line from Birmingham to Manchester has been axed, a parish council chairman has said.
Residents in a Staffordshire village near the Shropshire border, where HS2 bought up family homes to make way for the line to Manchester, have “suffered immensely” and will be “relieved” to hear it has been cancelled – but now they must be compensated, a local councillor has said.
He said: “We have had loads of farmers who have had their land compulsory purchased, some of them have been left completely heartbroken because these farms were their whole lives, some were born there and grew up there and they have been taken away from them and they don’t really understand why. “To be frank, the biggest problems were probably yet to come with the construction work itself so I think we have been lucky that those main construction works haven’t actually started.Councillor Stephenson said “95 per cent” of people in the area were against the project, but those who have had their homes purchased by HS2 will be “shocked and appalled” to hear it has now been cancelled.
Paul Walters, who spoke to the PA news agency in the leafy Heath Road in Whitmore, where a number of mansions have been bought out by HS2 so a tunnel could be bored underneath them, said it was “fabulous news” that the area would no longer be “blighted” by the rail project. “A friend of mine, five years ago he was chucked out of his house. I think they got good money for these houses, but that’s not the point.Mr Walters said his main concern about the HS2 project was the effect it would have on traffic.
“And I’m worried about the wildlife, there are so many deer around here and where are they going to go?”He said: “HS2 wasn’t going to make a difference to Stoke-on-Trent anyway, it’s not like we were going to be reaping the benefits and be able to jump on a train to London.
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